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Computer tech sites have been publishing and criticizing the NSA’s practices concerning monitoring since long before the current kerfuffle. Also, from The New York Times, 2/16/2005:•“President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the courtapproved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials.”

As opposed to those dictatorial regimes that we prop up because it serves our ends….But maybe Snowden should start tossing a football around on the Ecuadorian embassy grounds. This country will forgive you for just about anything if you can score touchdowns.

Ellsberg released information the courts said shouldn’t have been classified in the first place (about both Democratic and Republican administrations) regarding Viet Nam, as the information released posed no threat to ongoing security.

Manning, and now Snowden, have released information that CAN threaten lives and operations, overt and covert, that are part of the security of the nation.

I do NOT like the authorities provided by several sections of the “Patriot Act”, and find them far over-reaching. I didn’t like “W” using them covertly and in secret, and I don’t like Obama’s people doing the same, they haven’t hardly “expanded” the use, just had it revealed, btw.

While everything from nuclear secrets to the brand of toilet paper in the White House has been subject to being classified “secret”, since Reagan and Iran/Contra, the courts, the press, and the public should be aware of the difference, and the courts SHOULD intervene if either Congress, or an Administration, “over-reach”.

If we had whistle blowers and enraged people when the patriot act took away so many of our freedoms and rights, we would all be better off than we are.When you relinquish freedoms and rights, it’s very hard to get them back, and the longer you wait the harder it is to get them back.

About Jim Morin

Jim Morin’s drawings won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1996. He shared the Pulitzer in 1983 with other members of the Miami Herald editorial board, and was a Pulitzer finalist in 1977 and 1990. His work is syndicated internationally by the New York Times/CWS Syndicate.